_NetNomad
@_NetNomad@kbin.run
FM Chiptuner and Retro Computer Nerd
https://netnomad.dxcomplex.com
- Comment on Games where an emulated console version outclasses the PC port? 4 months ago:
i would recon this is true more often than not for attempts at 1:1 ports. glitches are more often introduced than fixed in the porting process, so if it isn't deliberately a remaster or offers extra content, you're probably better off with the original in an emulator. if you're interested in mods, it's also worth thinking about where the reverse engineering efforts have been focused- a lot of native PC ports have been picked apart and put back together with bugfixes and new content after the fact
sonic adventure is an example of all of the above. if you want the absolute worst version possible, just buy it off steam. if you want the best version possible, buy it off steam and mod the shit out of it. fan efforts to fix an abysmal port of a port ended up creating an experience that arguably surpasses the original before even getting into all the extra bells and whistles you can mod in
fan ports are also increasingly becoming a thing, so i guess the moral of the story is this: as far as official offerings go, emulation is probably going to be better than a native port, but if a game has enough enthusiastic hackers, then they may have frankensteined something even better together
- Comment on Poor Sega just didn't get the timing right. 4 months ago:
10-13 not including the additional 8 million Tectoy sales, which together meets or exceeds the Saturn and Dreamcast sales combined (with the former outselling the latter)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles
- Comment on What’s Your Oldest System? 4 months ago:
i have a 2600. warlords and circus atari are awedome with the paddle controllers. that seems to be the one of if not the oldest answer showing up in this thread, but i'd love to own a coleco telstar one day. the wood grain aesthetic is so cool, i wish it stuck around longer!
- Comment on Poor Sega just didn't get the timing right. 4 months ago:
Sega’s only console success was Mega Drive/Genesis.
i mean that's really only true in the northwest. the master system was huge in south america and the saturn was a bigger success than the mega drive was in japan
- Comment on Modder releases Unix-like operating system for the NES 4 months ago:
mystery solved, thank you!
- Comment on Modder releases Unix-like operating system for the NES 4 months ago:
i'm honestly a little suprised this hasn't happened sooner. there were plenty of computers with similar hardware at the time with CP/M or DOS variants, and the unix-like fuzix was originally developed for the z80 and i think has a 6502 port. that's not meant as a knock on decrayzo though- either way this is cool as shit
i'm curious what the culture around the famicom and FDS as computers was in japan. it was wildly popular but it never seems to come up in discussions of other 80s JP computers, so i wonder if the reason it never got a DOS straight from nintendo was because everyone including them saw it as more of a console than a computer despite the name. or maybe that's just a westerner's bias talking and japanese folks really do consider it as a contemporary of the PC-88 instead of the SMS
- Comment on US bans Kaspersky antivirus software due to 'national security risk' 4 months ago:
does that have a free tier or only paid plans
- Comment on US bans Kaspersky antivirus software due to 'national security risk' 4 months ago:
what antivirus are the cool kids using these days? i feel like whenever i finally settle on one it ends up embroiled in this or that scandal
- Comment on Describe an episode in the worst possible way 5 months ago:
young ferengi takes human expression "break a leg" too literally
- Comment on Canon Connections: DIS 5x07 - Erigah 6 months ago:
if i had a nickel for every time Spock faced off against a unique species of cat-like predator from Vulcan, i'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice
- Comment on Anyone remember Rad Mobile the first Sonic The Hedgehog game? 6 months ago:
i feel the same way about classic vs modern racers but i totally missed New Star GP getting released, it looks amazing!
- Comment on Should I get an NES, Master System; or an Atari 7800? 8 months ago:
it's been pointed out that the 7800 gives you two systems and you have an SMS if you have a Mega Drive, but it's worth pointing out that the SMS can also play SG-1000 games, which the MD cannot. the SG-1000 has a rather modest library but its very similar to both the ColecoVision and MSX1 to the point many of both console's heaviest hitters have been ported over by fans. getting all of that PLUS the SMS library makes it the obvious choice to me IF you don't already have an MD to play SMS games on. if you do, despite my bias i do have to say that both the NES and 2600 (via the 7800) both probably have deeper library then just the additional games SG-1000 support gets you
if you're torn, a ColevoVision with a RAM expansion and a 2600 adaptor gives you the SG-1000/coleco/some MSX1 AND 260